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I think it's clear that Mapes was personally invested in this story and can't let it go. People like this not only cannot accept the facts, but they remain convinced that the story is far more important than it ever actually was, because this is the only way they can continue to justify their obsession with it. Even if the documents had been real (or even forged more successfully so that we would not have been able to debunk them), this story would not have sunk George W. Bush. But she obviously thinks it would have.

And there is no doubt in my mind that the Kerry campaign was behind the whole story, just like it was behind Joe Wilson's fabrications and the invention of the White House leak story. These guys were very, very good at selling bullshit stories to a gullible, Bush-hating media. They had an entire PR campaign in the can ready to go the day after that 60 Minutes story aired. Either they just used Mary Mapes or she was part of the whole plot. If she was used, the Kerry people knew they could use her because she had been digging on the story for years and hated Bush. Either way she was biased and abused her power to get this story on the air.

If you or I had been duped into making a fool of yourself/myself, (and BTW kinda destroyed our career) don't you think we'd be just a little bit angry at the dumbass that set us up with the bogus paperwork?

She's still defending the documents themselves, so that clearly indicates she was a party to their creation. Her anger is directed at those who caught her, not at the suppposed source of the bad information.

I think it's clear that Mapes was personally invested in this story and can't let it go.

I think FReepers are being played for fools.

All the attention you folks are giving that woman only motivates the Left to purchase her book, which is the only goal she has. Nobody in the MSM is going to give her a job, so she is going through this process to gen up enough book sales to hopefully never have to work again. FReepers are falling for it hook, line and sinker.

The best thing that FReepers could do, would be to ignore the woman and not post anything from her at all.

Even if the documents had been real (or even forged more successfully so that we would not have been able to debunk them), this story would not have sunk George W. Bush. But she obviously thinks it would have.

Yep. Let's stipulate that Dubya's folks used pull to get him into the National Guard instead of Vietnam. So? Everybody knows that thousands of people of all political persuasions did the same, and tens of thousands of others would have if they'd only had the right connections. Nobody cares, unless they're looking for an excuse to bolster a pre-existing antipathy.